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PixFolio - Windows Image Viewer and Catalog Manager (Shareware) Version 2.0 (c) Allen C. Kempe, 1992, 1993, 1994. All rights reserved. Portions (c) Microsoft Corporation, 1985-1993. All rights reserved. See User Guide for other copyright information. **************************************************************************** PixFolio is a Microsoft Windows program that can view a variety of bitmapped graphics formats and maintain multiple catalogs of images. The graphics formats currently supported are: BMP/DIB-Windows Bitmap CGM - Computer Graphics Metafile CLP - Windows clipboard file DRW/GRF - Micrografx draw and graph files. EPS - Encapsulated Postscript with imbedded TIFF preview images. FLI/FLC - Autodesk Animator and Animator Pro (tm) files. GIF - CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format ICO - Windows Icon ICS - Image Cytometry ICS files. IFF - IFF/LBM (Amiga) used by Computer Eyes frame grabber. IMG - GEM/IMG (Digital Research). JPG - JPEG MAC - Macintosh MacPaint files. PCT - Macintosh PICT files. PCX - Microsoft Paint & PC Paintbrush RLE - Compuserve Run Length Encoded TGA - Targa TIFF- Tag Image Format. Most formats including 24 bit color are supported. WMF - Windows Metafile. WPG - WordPerfect Graphics Note: Not all variations that may be possible in the above file formats have been tested due to lack of suitable test files. *** Optional features *** PixFolio supports the additional file formats if you purchase the optional, extra cost ($15) PixFolio-Plus PCD/multimedia upgrade. This option requires that you have a Photo CD capable of reading KODAK Photo CDs and in the case of Video for Windows and/or Quick Time that your machine has the necessary Windows software. The PCD/multimedia, PixFolio-Plus option is available only to registered users of PixFolio because of licensing agreements on some of the support modules. AVI - Video for Windows. (Requires Video for Windows) MID - MIDI music files. MOV - Quick Time movie files. (Requires Quick Time for Windows) PCD - KODAK Photo CD. WAV - WAVE sound files. Note: MIDI and WAV files can be cataloged just like image files; a placeholder bitmap is provided for screen and catalog displays. The major feature of PixFolio is the ability to build catalogs of images, that may reside on different disks. The catalog can then be searched and images can be easily located. Provisions are made for saving a primary and backup location for the image concurrently. To enhance searching for a particular image the program can display postage stamp images in a matrix. The ability to read an image in one format and to save it in another allows the program to be used as a file conversion utility. THE AUTHOR RESERVES ALL RIGHTS TO THIS PROGRAM. THE AUTHOR DOES NOT WARRANT THIS PROGRAM'S FITNESS OR SUITABILITY FOR ANY PURPOSE. ALL USERS SHOULD USE IT AT THEIR OWN RISK. The author will make a reasonable effort to correct problems and software bugs relating to documented features of the program for registered users. The author intends to make continuing improvements to the program including supporting additional file formats. To this end, comments and suggestions are welcomed. Users may contact the author, Allen C. Kempe on CompuServe (71220,23), on GEnie at A.KEMPE, INTERNET: allenk@iglou.com or in writing at: Allen C. Kempe 298 W. Audubon Drive Shepherdsville, KY 40165-8836 USA Phone: (502) 955-7527 Fax: (502) 543-8980 The Author is a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals. Main Features PixFolio utilizes Microsoft's MDI (Multiple Document Interface) so that multiple images can be open concurrently. File Menu: New File - create a blank image suitable for pasting from the clipboard. Open File - Open a new file for viewing. Save File - Save an image, possibly in a different format. Move/Copy file - Move or copy a file. Delete - Delete a file. Print - print all or part of an image. Select Printer - select a printer Close Catalog Menu: Select catalog: Create, delete, select or rename an image catalog. Catalog. Create or update a catalog entry for a displayed image. Browse Catalog. View catalog entries one by one; select a subset for viewing. Build Catalog. Create catalog entries for groups of images. View thumbnails of catalog entries. Print Catalog Entries. Two formats are provided. Export - Export the contents of a catalog for input to a database or spreadsheet. Rebuild Catalog Index. Recover lost space in file and compact it. Edit Menu: Paste palette and image from clipboard. Copy all or part of an image to the clipboard. Cut a selected area from an image. Crop an image. Expand an image to fill the dimensions of the current window. Resize an image by a percentage amount or fit to a given dimension. Options: Set background color used when image is expanded. Set whether to use a solid or pattern background color. Display DIB or Bitmap format. Control whether warning messages will be displayed. Establish default operating options. Palette Options: Palette manipulation (Brightness and contrast). Convert to gray scale. Dither to Black & White or color palette. Play a GIF animation sequence. Single step through a GIF animation sequence. Change the speed of a GIF animation sequence. Capture: Capture the contents of another screen or the Windows desktop. Other: Using the mouse in the main viewing window, a marquee can be selected for copying or cutting to the clipboard. The right mouse button can be used to draw a stretch marquee where the selected image rectangle is copied. Help: Context sensitive help is included for all menu items. **** Other Features **** PixFolio version 2.0 supports OLE version 1.0 as a server only. PixFolio will automatically register itself as an OLE server the first time that it is executed. PixFolio will accept "Drag and Drop" filenames from File Manager. ******** Equipment Requirements ********** While PixFolio will execute in a minimal Windows installation, for example, a 286 with 2 megabytes of memory, program operation will be severely inhibited by a lack of memory. On such a configuration, large bitmaps, especially 8 or 24 bit images may fail. Other applications could be adversely affected as well and fail with unexpected UAE's. Actual results will vary depending upon the amount of memory used by other applications running concurrently. PixFolio was developed and tested on a 20-MHz 386 with 8 megabytes of memory. It is recommended that PixFolio be run on a machine with at least 4 and pre- ferrably, 6 megabytes of memory. Running in 386-Enhanced mode will also make available the benefits of virtual memory. The display of images containing more than 16 colors requires that you have a Super VGA or better video display and a 256 color Windows device driver in order to display the full range of colors in the image. However, PixFolio incorporates dithering functions that will allow display of a 256 color image using a 16 color driver such as the standard VGA driver. Such operations are slow and the results are not as good as if you have a video display capable of displaying 256 colors. ********** Program Limitations ************* PixFolio has no limit on the number of catalogs that can be created or the size of these catalogs except as noted below and the amount of available memory. However, the following points should be noted: 1. PixFolio 2.0 will only run under Windows 3.1 or higher. Catalog file formats are compatible with PixFolio version 1.04 with one exception: if the text in a catalog entry's description exceeds 1200 bytes, the catalog cannot be read by versions of PixFolio prior to version 2.0. 2. The size of a catalog is limited by the amount of disk space where it resides or 2,048 index entries. Catalog records are variable length and depend upon the type of image and how big the comments are. It is recommended that for performance reasons that catalogs be limited to less than 2000 entries. This limitation does not apply to the NT version of PixFolio. 3. PixFolio may encounter difficulty with extremely large images, those in excess of 1024 x 768 pixels. This is particularly true of color images and even more so by 24 bit color or gray scale images. This is primarily due to the increased memory requirements. 4. While PixFolio and Windows supports 24 bit color and gray scale images, the display of such images using a video driver that only displays 256 colors, can result in some lengthy delays whenever windows has to realize the 24 bit RGB data to an 8 bit palette. It may take 15 to 20 minutes to realize a 640 x 480 image depending upon the speed of your machine. Dithering a 24 bit image to 256 colors can take more than an hour in some cases. If you plan to work with 24 bit images, you may wish to invest in a video board that supports "high color". One such board that appears to work quite well is the ATI VGASTEREO F/X card. 5. The support for GIF animation in PixFolio requires large amounts of free memory. GIF animation files with a large number of frames or overlays may unexpectedly fail if PixFolio runs out of memory. Autodesk FLI/FLC animation files likewise require large amounts om memory. To provide maximum performance, the entire image is loaded into memory to reduce delays caused by reading from disk. A lack of physical memory that requires Windows to utilize paged virtual memory (in 386 Enhanced mode) can result in "jumpy" animations. In addition a high performance video board and driver is recommended to optimally display animation files without pauses that destroy the effect. 6. PixFolio has not been rigorously tested in a network environment. The affect of network operations and more than one user accessing PixFolio files concurrently cannot be predicted. 7. Not all graphics formats are supported equally with respect to reading and saving a file. For example, not all of the compression options are currently supported for saving TIFF images. GIF images can only be saved in GIF87a format. Likewise, some of the more obscure or obsolete formats such as 4 color CGA formats for PCX cannot be written although they can be read. CCITT Group 4 TIFF file comprssion formats are not supported at this time. 8. The author has not been able to test PixFolio with printers that print in color in Windows 3.1 except for an Epson 2550. One user has reported that PixFolio give very good results printing color images on Start Micronics NX-1000 Rainbow and NX-1020 printers but you must obtain the OEM driver from Star Micronics. Use of HP Deskjet 500C printers requires obtaining the latest drivers. Printer performance when running under Windows 3.1 is much improved. It is both faster as well as of higher quality. Changes to the printer drivers also enable printing to color printers such as the Epson LQ-2550. 9. The implementation of Micrografx .DRW and .GRF files is not rigorous. Some features of these files are not supported. Unless you have Adobe Type Manager or scalable typefaces, the rendition of fonts used in these files may not be optimal when Windows matches fonts. 10. If you have the KODAK Photo CD optional package, you may not be able to render images at the highest resolution (16BASE) unless you have at least 8 megs of ram and a 34 meg swap file. These are limitations of the KODAK PCD software, not PixFolio. 11. Other program limitations, if any, can be determined by accessing the online context-sensitive help. ****** Installation and Getting Started******* If your copy of PixFolio was received on a distribution diskette, the installation should be done from within windows by running "SETUP" from drive A: or B: (whichever is appropriate). This is important as the files on a distribution diskette are compressed. Otherwise, the following installation procedure should be followed: It is suggested that the files which constitute PixFolio be placed in their own subdirectory on your hard disk. These files are: PIXFOLIO.EXE (PIXFOL32.EXE - NT/WIN32S) PIXFOLIO.HLP (PIXFOL32.HLP = NT/WIN32S) SPIN.DLL METER.DLL PIXDLL.DLL PIXIODLL.DLL PIXHELP.DLL PIXCATLG.DLL PIXTIFF.DLL PIXGIF.DLL PIXFLIC.DLL PIXWPG.DLL PIXJPEG.DLL PIXCNTRL.DLL PIXNET.DLL PIXHKS32.DLL (NT/WIN32S) Once the above files have been located in the subdirectory of your choice, start Windows and then use the Program Manager "Add" command to add PixFolio to the desired program group. When PixFolio runs for the first time, it will establish a section in your WIN.INI file with program variables. These default options should enable you to start using PixFolio immediately. Once PixFolio is running you may access the online Help command for specific instructions and explanation of PixFolio menu commands. A quick review of PixFolio features and operating procedures can be gained by reviewing the user guide. ****** Credits ****** The author of PixFolio would like to recognize the efforts of Mr. Paul Hachey, (CompuServe Id 76625,2644) who performed an invaluable service by getting deeply involved in the extensive testing that went on over a period of months. Paul is responsible for the design of the PixFolio cover page, Icon and "About" dialog box and his many suggestions greatly influenced the "look and feel" of PixFolio. Other people who have participated in the testing of PixFolio include: Luis Alvarez David Brune Monte Davis Bruce DeVries Sean Gonzalez James Horner Tom Little John Sabo Their help is appreciated. Recent Changes: ***** Version 2.0.110 (1/3/94) ***** 685. Add options to display thumbnails in thumbnail view 1.5x or 2x. Add option to Auto Close open images when a new image is opened in Thumb- nail view. 686. Add option to view a duplicate catalog item's thumbnail and allow the user to rename or delete the image being cataloged when the file name already exists in a catalog. 687. Add a single step button to FLIC animations to allow single frames to be displayed. 688. Correct problem where the last sound in slideshow doesn't play. 689. Correct problem in NT version where thumbnails sometimes don't display in the catalog image dialog. 690. Correct problem in the NT version where the user gets "Lock Error" messages when cataloging an image. 691. Correct problem in catalog image where you get a "Move Failed" error immediately after pressing the "Move" button. ***** Version 2.0.111 (1/8/94) ***** 692. Correct cancel button in Duplicate image dialog box; return code wasn't getting set properly. 693. When an image was moved from the catalog image dialog and the file was already cataloged, the image file path im memory wasn't updated resulting in a bogus "duplicate" file error if Catalog image was selected again for the same image. 694. Move file wasn't converting the pathnames to network names. ***** Version 2.0.111 (01/09/94) ***** 695. Correct a GPF that occurs occasionally when moving thumbnails from one catalog to another. 696. Add pop-up thumbnail window to Catalog Browse function. 697. Prevent a GPF that occurs when selecting delete from the Duplicate file dialog and the catalog dialog's thumbnail is not drawn. 698. Prevent occasional "Move Failed" errors caused by field not being init- ialized properly. 699. Changed Keywords dialog to Keyword(s). 700. Restructured Build dialog. 710. Reworked Browse dialog to incorporate "preview" mode display of thumbnails. 711. Correct a problem with 1.5x & 2x Thumbnail displays where the thumbnail is displayed as a monochrome bitmap when using some video drivers. 712. Correct problem reading certain gray scale images when using a hicolor video driver. ***** Version 2.0.112 (01/18/94) ***** 713. Delete file leaves the file open an if you cancel out, you can't open it again if SHARE is running. 714. Correct typo in Help. 715. Print options: "Center Image" etc. and "Print Filename" will be saved for a given printer between sessions. 716. The initial selection in Browse/Search will now be displayed properly. Also, hot key for Preview changed to Alt-R. ("R" underlined). 717. In catalog Build, "Keywords" changed to "Keyword(s)". 718. The square size for DIB palettes will now be saved between sessions. 719. Add 10 button bar icons. ***** Version 2.0.113 (01/30/94) ***** 720. Add additional buttonbar icons. Gray inactive buttonbar icons. Display standard helpt text for Button bar icons. Allow for separator between icons. Add help cursor menu item to Help menu. To edit the button bar, edit the "Buttonx=" items in the [PixFolio] section of WIN.INI (or PixFolio.INI). Buttons can be listed in any sequence but the first button must be "Button1=...". Icons will be displayed on the button bar sequentially; i.e Button1 will be first. A missing button key will terminate the display of buttons, e.g: Button5 be the last button displayed if there is no Button6. The special entry Buttonx=0 will display a blank position on the button bar. To revert to the default button bar setup, remove the Button1 entry from the INI file. 721. Catalog dialog revised to present a much less confusing presentation of a duplicate file condition. The catalog display will be ofthe existing catalog entry and the duplicate file dialog will display the thumbnail of the file being cataloged. ***** Version 2.0.114 (02/03/94) ***** 722. Update "To" page count when changing printers and/or print options in the Print dialog. ***** Version 2.0.115 (02/04/94) ***** 723. View button in Catalog dialog doesn't work when browsing. 724. Turn on wait cursor in Build dialog when building file lists. 725. Turn on wait cursor in Catalog dialog for Next/Previous operations. 726. Increase internal buffer used to retrieve default file extensions in Startup Options dialog. 727. Check for and discard spaces in file extensions list used for file open. ***** Version 2.0.116 (2/15/94) ***** 728. Present an error message if an attempt is made to add more than 2048 entries to a catalog (WIN16 version only). 729. Correct a problem whereby the File - Delete function does not close the window. (WIN32/NT version only). 730. Treat catalog as "Read Only" if located on a network drive and the user does not have write access. 731. Revise Startup options dialog adding Thumbnail view options and JPEG read options. 732. Add new JPEG read options to control whether pixel smoothing and/or 2 pass color quantization will be used. Turning these options off will result in faster reading of JPEG files. 733. Fix Status Bar help messages for PCD Resolution/Palette and Thumbnail options menu selections. 734. Correct problem with Catalog Browse where the thumbnail is lost whenever the keywords, description or title is updated. 735. Modify Build dialog so that "Show All" tri-state check box is now 3 radio buttons labeled "Show All", "Uncataloged" and "Cataloged". 736. Fix display of status line help for main menu items and popup menus in the NT version. 737. Add missing status line help strings for "Display Button Bar" and "Display Halftone" (NT version only). ***** Version 2.0.117 (02/24/94) ***** 738. Correct problem in Select Catalog dialog where OK button is grayed when user doesn't have write access to catalog directory. 739. When deleting a catalog, allow user the choice of not deleting the catalogs as well as the catalog listing. 740. In the catalog dialog, erase the current path information if the directory is locatable but the image is not present in that directory. 741. Correct problem displaying the extensions when a catalog is selected in the Select Catalog dialog. ***** Version 2.0.118 (02/27/94) ***** 742. Correct a problem in the NT version where cancelling an operation via the status line cancel button would result in PixFolio hanging up the next time the progress meter is to be displayed. 743. Correct a problem in the NT version where a network path for a local share was being assigned to a new local drive. 744. Correct problem in the NT version where network paths would occasionally be returned as "garbage" characters. 745. Fix File move so that when the "to" location is on the same drive, a rename will take place rather than a physical copy. This is much faster and more efficient for WORM drives. 746. Add a "delete" button to the catalog dialog when doing a file build so the user can delete the file and continue. ***** Version 2.0.119 (03/07/94) ***** 747. Made various changes to allow NT version to run under WIN32s. Includes Kodak Photo CD support. 748. NT/WIN32s version executable file name changed to PIXFOL32.EXE. ***** Version 2.0.120 (93/13/94) ***** 749. Correct problem where initial default catalog entry in WIN.INI has garbage characters for volume label of catalog drive. 750. Widen buttons on Build dialog. 751. Add Button bar option to Child menu. 753. File Open (NT version) doesn't display directories properly if there are imbedded spaces in the file extension list. Add code to strip out any imbedded spaces. ***** Version 2.0.121 (03/15/94) ***** 754. Correct a problem determining the local machine name when running the 32 bit version under Win NT. ***** Version 2.0.122 (04/04/94) ***** 755. Correct problems in NT version that caused Build to crash after processing a variable number of images caused by problems in creating alternate sequences. 756. Add field on Catalog dialog to specify the alternate display sequence. 757. Correct problem in reading GIF89a images if there are erroneous entries in an image descriptor. 758. Changed method used to read in catalog indexes to make it faster. 759. Corrected some problems in keeping track of alternate display sequences where images would get duplicated and others not displayed. 780. Fixed a problem where the default options for saving a TIFF image were being set improperly. 781. Corrected a problem where if a new catalog was selected while a thumbnail view was minimized, the thumbnails would not display when the thumbnail view was subsequently restored. 782. Add message to display when a mismatch between the catalog file and index was detected. 783. Correct a problem in the select printer dialog. 784. Print crashes if a BMP file has an invalid image size definition. Code was added to check the value and to correct it if possible. 785. "Loop" feature wasn't working when displaying FLI images. ***** Version 2.0.123 (04/10/94) ***** 786. Added missing PIXNET32.DLL to PIXFNT.ZIP file. 787. Corrected a problem reading certain IFF/LBM files where the image width wasn't a multiple of 16. Also, added ability to decode HAM encoded 6 plane images. 788. Corrected a problem converting local device names to net (UNC) names in NT version running under WIN32S. ***** Version 2.0.124 04/18/94 ***** 789. Moved several error messages to the resource file so they can be translated. 790. Add feature to prompt for manual file type if file extension isn't recognized. 791. Speeded up decoding of IFF/LBM HAM6 & HAM8 files. ***** Version 2.0.125 (04/23/94) ***** 792. Correct a problem where print defaults weren't getting set properly. 793. Correct problem with displaying capture image; button bar would not work and GPF would occur if you tried to print the captured image. ***** Version 2.0.126 (04/28/94) ***** 794. Correct problem with reading images stored on floppy disks when double- clicking on a thumbnail image. 795. Correct display of PhotoCD TechInfo data. ***** Version 2.0.127 (05/07/94) ***** 796. Move Help menu item to right side of menubar. 798. Incorporate new version of Kodak PhotoCD library. New features include support for high-resolution 64BASE images (4096 x 6144). Note: you will need at least 32 megs of memory to read in an image at this resolution. However, you can read in a partial image at 64BASE or any other resolution by first opening the image at a smaller resolution, sa BASE. Then use the mouse, holding the left button down, to draw a marquee defining the area you wish to view, change the resolution to 64Base and open the image again. A new image will be read in at the resolution you select and containing only the portion of the image selected by the marquee. 799. Add support for keyboard scrolling keys (Page Up, Page Down, etc) in Slide and Full screen viewing window when scrollbars are present. 800. Add support for (Page Up and Page Down keys) in image windows when scroll bars are present. 801. Added underlines to several check box titles in Slide Show options dialog. 802. "Display Status Bar" check box in the Startup options dialog was not getting initialized properly. ***** Version 2.0.128 (05/13/94) ***** 803. Add TWAIN support. TWAIN Acquire and Select Source menu items will auto- matically be added to the File menu if TWAIN software is present on your PC. 804. Fix problem in Catalog Build where file names would not be displayed the 2nd time you try to run it. 805. Don't automatically update pathname in catalog build if file sizes are different; force image to be displayed. ***** Version 2.0.129 (05/17/94) ***** 806. Fix Application error that occurred when writing a new catalog entry caused by an invalid pointer. 807. Fix problem reading an image stored on a floppy drive when double- clicking on a thumbnail. File name in error message is garbage and file can't be read. 808. Added code to enable the main window after doing a TWAIN acquire operation to correct a problem where PixFolio hangs when using the Logitech TWAIN source. ***** Version 2.0.130 (05/18/94) ***** 809. Corrected a problem with TWAIN source manager not getting closed if source is closed by itself or manually. ***** Version 2.0.131 (05/22/94) ***** 810. Fix Export Catalog so that the catalog is closed properly in all cases. 811. Fix Import Catalog so that the catalog is closed properly in all cases. Add additional checks for valid file name so that Import can be closed if import file is invalid. 812. Add check in rebuild index routine so that PixFolio will not try to create workfiles on a network drive where the user doesn't have write access. Correct error message "Cannot open work file A:H:~PXC0777.TMP" to remove "A:". 813. Subsequent TWAIN operations fail if user closed source manually or if source automatically closes. THis problem has been corrected. 814. Correct various problems with setting defaults for radio buttons in Catalog New. 815. Changed main window processing so that when a menu command completes, the status bar displays "Ready, select a menu option." 816. Correct problem in moving marked thumbnail images to another catalog. Target Catalog wasn't getting closed and could not be re-opened so move failed after moving one thumbnail. 817. Recompiled AVI, FLI and WAV/MIDI modules. ***** Version 2.0.132 (06/04/94) ***** 818. Fix application error when selecting "Scale Options" on print menu. 819. Make changes made during session to Verify Catalog option visible to catalog read routines. 820. Correct display of number of pages when printing a list of marked thumbnails. 821. Correct problem with PixFolio incorrectly truncating the new catalog title in Catalog Select Catalog when creating a new Catalog. 822. Fix problem where the current image's palette gets destroyed when the image is printed. This was reported as several different problems relating to GIF and TIF files. 823. Changed "Keywords" to "Keyword(s)" in various places. 824. Enlarged Resize Image dialog to avoid truncating several controls. 825. Correct display of "list files of type" in the Import Catalog dialog. 826. Enlarged Stretch Options... dialog to avoid clipping left/right margins text entry boxes. 827. Eliminate unused "Tree" checkbox from move/copy dialog. 828. Corrected operation of Resize dialog so that rotation and resizing can be done in one operation. 829. Correct problem with vertical scroll bar elevator button in Thumbnail view. 830. Correct problem where changing the catalog referenced in the catalog image dialog changes the catalog of a thumbnail view improperly when more than 1 thumbnail views are displayed. 831. Speed up selecting a new catalog by not opening again it if an existing thumbnail view is using the new catalog already. 832. Prompt the user before changing the password on an existing catalog to verify the new password. 833. Correct a problem where another catalog cannot be selected after cancelling the entry of a catalog's password. 834. If more than 1 thumbnail view is displayed and a catalog is updated, insure that the appropriate thumbnail view's display is updated when a catalog entry is added to the catalog displayed by either thumbnail view. 835. Correct problem where catalog can't be opened again if cancelling a move operation. ***** Version 2.0.133 (06/16/94) ***** 836. Fix 90 (degree), etc. tags in Resize dialog to eliminate clipping. 837. Changing thumbnail size selection wasn't forcing a re-display for the new size. 838. In the stretch options dialog, the X axis size box was getting clipped. 839. When the fonts button in the select catalog options dialog was pressed, existing selections on the screen like "Print Catalog Using THumbnails" were getting erased. 840. Correct problems with some CGM files: a. PixFolio crashes when BEGIN_PICTURE record has an invalid value. b. Colormap not generated properly when color resolution is 8 bits. 841. Add code to check for the situation where a 24 bit BMP says it has a palette but the palette is all one color, black and generate a new palette. 842. Implement faster dither routine. For 24 bit images when AutoDither is on, an 8 bit "display" image will be created and displayed but the original 24 bit bitmap will be retained and will be the target of any image manipulation commands such as resize, crop, paste, etc., and a new "display" bitmap will be created and displayed. If a 24 bit image is dithered to 8 bits, the "display" bitmap will then be discarded. It is recommended that the AutoDither option be turned on if you are using a 256 (8 bit) color display and wish to manipulate 24 bit images as it will be faster than trying to display a 24 bit bitmap. Also, the dither operation that creates the "display" bitmap will result in better rendition of the image than by trying to display the 24 bit image and having to perform numerous "nearest color" comparisons. ***** Version 2.0.134 (06/28/94) ***** 843. Incorporate new cover bitmap by Kyle Miller. (Copyright 1994, Kyle Miller, 70402,1047) 844. Add functionality to Photo CD read routines to use an alternate lookup table (LUT) to adjust picture contrast and/or brightness. 9 predefined lookup tables (MSETUP1.LUT - MSETUP9.LUT) are included. 845. Correct some problems with GIF animations where Pix was improperly treating some overlays as invalid and setting their origin to the upper left corner of the image. ***** Version 2.0.135 (07/08/94) ***** 846. Make changes in thread handling to 32 bit version in anticipation of Windows 4.0. 847. Fix a problem with Print not working after the default printer is changed via Print Manager or Control Panel. 848. Resized About box to fit new Aboutt Bitmap. 849. Correct a GPF that occurs when selecting FIle New. 850. Change menu item from Select PRinter to Print Setup. ***** Version 2.0.136 (07/16/94) ***** 851. Fix a problem reading PCD files when the RGB option is selected. 852. Add clarification to help file for Add Thumbnail option of Process thumbnails. This option is only available when the Catalog - Display Hidden menu item is selected. 853. Fixed a problem where the error message "Can't open file #@$%^.." is displayed after selecting a new catalog in the "Catalog an Image" dialog. 854. The full screen display of the image being cataloged in Build Catalog will now utilize the "stretch to fit" option. 855. The Thumbnail view select information dialog will now display different underlined characters for Update and Uncatalog. 856. In Process Thumbnails "Save as Marked" now has an underlined character for keyboard access. 857. Fixed several problems with the Import function. Import will now not fail if title or description entries are zero length. Also, the first record in the input file will now be processed properly. 858. The file menu "New" entry has been changed to "New...". 859. Export help has been clarified with respect to the description of imbedded commas, carriage returns, etc. 860. Startup Options "Default Catalog" changed to "Default Catalog:". 861. Removed the underlined "C" in "Catalog" in Browse/Search. 863. Added explanation in Help for Rebuild Index about this function being available only when no windows are open. 864. Fixed a problem with the Print dialog. If Options was selected and then Scale values were entered and then cancelled, the Print Dialog Options - Option button would subsequently display the "Catalog Options" dialog instead of the Print options dialog. 865. Added Help for Photo CD Select LUT, Default LUT and Alt LUT menu selections. 866. Added status bar help for the Photo CD LUT options. 867. Corrected a problem with Select Catalog - Delete always deleting the first catalog. 868. In Select Catalog, "Password" was changed to "Password:". 869. In Select Catalog, switxhing the "Select, Change, Delete and Add Options" will now re-display the proper default values. 870. Added a feature allowing the user to double click on a thumbnail's title bar to mark and unmark it. 872. Status bar help for "Save as Marked", etc. now have proper punctuation. 873. The title of the "PixFolio Custom Colors" has been changed to "PixFolio Background Color". 874. Added status bar help for "Size Window to Image". 875. Changed Status bar help for Change Delay between GIF89A animation frames to read "GIF87a". 876. In slide Show Options, the M and N keyboard accellerator keys now work. 877. In Slide Show options, File New and Edit Resize, the numeric entry fields will now check for entry of invalid characters, i.e. alpha or non-numeric characters. 878. Corrected a problem with the Tech Info display where it would truncate large GIF89a information blocks. 879. Renamed the cover file PIX2_C.BMP from PIX2-C.BMP. 880. The Photo CD LUT selection Dialog's title now reads "Select Lookup Table". 881. Removed the "Read Only" checkbox from the Photo CD LUT selection dialog. 882. Added help to the Photo CD LUT selection dialog. 883. Changed Edit Resize to automatically restore an iconized image before displaying the resized or rotated image. 884. In Catalog Build, selecting a new catalog will now properly re-display the file list. 885. Made minor punctuation changes to Help for Catalog Menu Set Keywords, Edit Menu - Resize and Edit Copy. 886. Under the Catalog Menu, changed "Set Default Keywords" and "Set Play Rate" to remove the "Set" which is implied. 887. Corrected some problems with the dialog that asks for an extension for a file that is not recognized. Also, display the complete pathname in a readonly edit box in the dialog. 888. Corrected some inconsistencies in the list of files by separating multiple extensions with commas instead of slashes. 889. Corrected an inconsistency in the Catalog menu by removing an extra menu separator when images are displayed. 890. Removed "Play Image" and "Single Step Play" from Help as these functions have been replaced by VCR controls in the image windows. 891. The error help for "Move Failed" has been changed to replace the char- acters "FY" with "by". 892. Added links for the Help Cursor for Display Button Bar, Center Image, JPEG options, MPEG options, Thumbnail options, Startup Options and the Help buttons. 893. Eliminated unprintable character from comments field in JPEG files created by PixFolio that shows up when the file is read in and the Tech Info is displayed. 894. In Help for Photo CD options, "PCD Base Over 16" was not underlined. ***** Version 2.0.137 (07/20/94) ***** 895. Correct problem with image's palette being corrupted after displaying an image as greyscale and then undoing it. 896. Correct a problem that causes the Catalog dialog to crash when a new catalog is selected. 897. Select Printer changed to Print Setup. 898. Correct clipping problems in New and Resize dialogs. 899. Make the default extension for Import "ASC". 900. Correct accelerator keys in Startup Options. Add Verify Catalog. Change "JPEG 2 pass Quant" to JPEG 2 Pass Quant". 901. Change Select Catalog dialog so that Password box's prompt reads "New Password" for the Change option and disable it if the catalog is read only. Disable the Password box for the Delete option. 902. Make change to File Open so that list produced is consistent with the same function in Catalog Build. 903. Force the file list in Catalog Build to be lowercase the same as File Open. ***** Version 2.0.138 (07/31/94) ***** 904. Correct problem reading 24 bit PCD files. The changes made for item #851 got lost. 905. Correct problem in 32 bit version where an application error occurs when cataloging an MPEG file. Also, display 1st frame of MPEG video when opening the file. 906. Follow Tree in the Catalog Build dialog wasn't working. 907. Catalog Select Catalog Delete wasn't working. 908. Eliminated "syntax error" importing data when the end of file is reached. Also, change Export to default to Import's file format. Added additional checks to verify the format of the input record. 909. If the Select All checkbox is checked in Catalog Build and the listbox is re-drawn, the items will be selected like before. 910. Fix GPF that occurs when creating a new image with Catalog New. ***** Version 2.0.139 (08/11/94) ***** 911. Recover gracefully if reading a WMF file with an invalid file size in the file header. 912. Fix memory leak in Catalog new image dialog. 913. Increase internal buffers to handle long file names when running NT version. 913. Correct problem in Select Catalog. When Change option was selected, the default catalog was being opened. 914. Add Code to process CGM elliptical and circular arcs. 915. Change edits on thumbnail size to limit width to page width less margins. 916. Correct problem in UNC name conversion caused by PixFolio being unable to locate the proper network driver. (16 bit version) 917. Create PixFolio.ini file in Windows directory if none present and move any parameters from WIN.INI to PixFolio.ini. ***** Version 2.0.140 (08/21/94) ***** 918. Add Sharpen, blur and relief filters for 24 bit images. ***** Version 2.0.141 (08/24/94) ***** 919. Fix problem where reading 2nd FLI image causes GPF. ***** Version 2.0.142 (08/26/94) ***** 920. Add code to check for disk workspace requirements prior to printing. Display number of thumbnails per page in Catalog Options dialog. 921. Correct display of pagecount when printing selected thumbnails. 922. Correct GPF's that occur in Print Dialog when running under WIN32s. NOTE: There is a known problem when running under WIN32s in the Print Dialog. If you select a new printer, you must press Cancel and bring up the Dialog again for the new printer to be recognized. ***** Version 2.0.143 (09/04/94) ***** 923. Eliminate limit of 2048 entries per catalog for the WIN16 version. The size of a catalog is now essentially limited by the amount of memory available. 924. Add dBase export option. The dBase III file can be imported into other database programs and spreadsheets such as Excel. 925. Correct problem deleting catalogs. Catalog entries were removed from display but not from PixFolio.ini. 926. Store catalog title in *.CAT file so that dropping a catalog onto PixFolio's window will allow the name to be setup automatically. 927. Correct GPF that occurs when formatting text information from GIF89a images caused by buffer in Catalog function not being big enough. ***** Version 2.0.144 (9/23/94) ***** 928. Correct problems reading DRW files: text blocks were being bypassed and elipses and arcs weren't being rotated properly. 929. "Force Update" option did not work when "Auto Build" was selected" 930. Keywords were being replaced by default keyword when updating a catalog with "Auto Build" turned on. 931. Importing a catalog will now assign an alternate sequence based upon the input sequence of import records. 932. Visual state of Audio mute button for Video windows did not track properly. 933. Loop button for MPEG (32 bit version) did not work. 934. Thumbnail view wasn't getting re-drawn when a new catalog was selected. 935. Disable buttons while drawing the bitmap in the Catalog Image dialog and while a file is being moved. 936. Disable buttons in Build dialog while directory display is being updated. 937. 32 bit version crashes when adding a catalog entry. 938. Assume a size of 320x200 for WMF files without size information. (WMF or Aldus Header). ***** Version 2.0.145 (10/1/94) ***** 939. Correct problem with moving thumbnails when the thumbnail being moved is displayed before the target location. Also, in the 32 bit version, the thumbnail being moved would be replicated over the span of the move. 940. Add display of Title to Browse preview. 941. Removed non-functional "Dib Info" from File Open dialog. 942. Make sure that a remnant of the group box frame when the Browse dialog is expanded gets erased when the dialog is contracted. 943. Swap the positions of CANCEL and OK in the Slide Show options dialog. 944. In catalog Print Options, the "Use thumbnails" checkbox has been replaced with 2 radio buttons: "Print from catalog thumbnail" and "Print from original image". 945. Fixed the operation of the file accelerator keys. Note: at present, "Undo" (Alt + Bksp) only works for the left Alt button. 956. Corrected a problem with 180 degree rotation where a thin sliver of the image "wrapped around". Also, skip over resize operation if the image dimensions haven't been changed. 957. Corrected a case where several options on the Startup Options dialog had the same letter underlined. ***** Version 2.0.146 (10/09/94) ***** 958. Correct a GPF in PixNet.dll when dropping a catalog icon. 959. Dropping a catalog wasn't working in 32 bit version. 960. Properly determine whether a catalog that is being "dropped", is read only. 961. Treat catalogs as "read only" in Select Catalog dialog when Delete or Change option is selected and the catalog can't be opened. This will allow bad catalog entries to be deleted or changed.